175: Building Resiliency in Recovery with Caroline Beidler
b'On today\'s episode, Duane speaks with Caroline Beidler who shares her story and talks specifically about building resiliency and recovery, the importance of resiliency, especially when it relates to overcoming trauma, and how she discovered that process in her own life. Caroline also shares a few things that you can do in your life immediately to help build resilience.\\nCaroline\'s mental health recovery and addiction recovery were intertwined. She knew that if she wanted to thrive in her recovery, she had to heal her trauma and build resilience. Then a couple of years later, she decided to go back to school to become a social worker and help others who also seek recovery.\\nCaroline lived with undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder for over 20 years. Caroline recalls experiencing panic attacks, anxiety, and depression triggered by her experiences of being in a room full of men. She struggled more with disordered eating and was in very unhealthy and emotionally abusive relationships. After finally seeking a mental health therapist, Caroline realized that so much of what was happening in her life was because of untreated trauma symptoms.\\xa0\\nAs she discovered more practical tools to help her mental health and trauma resilience, her life and her world changed. With her healing transformed, she reached the next level in recovery and founded Bright Story Shine, a storytelling platform created to share and celebrate stories of recovery and resilience without judgment and shame.\\xa0\\xa0\\nBy bringing these stories out into the open, our pain can be witnessed and we can also witness other people\'s pain. There is something in that process that allows us to move forward and shift that story.\\nIn this episode, you will hear:\\n\\nCaroline\\u2019s story of recovery\\n\\nWhat resilience means\\n\\nDeveloping safe coping skills to promote resilience\\n\\nThe role of storytelling in healing\\n\\nSkills that you can build in recovery\\n\\nSome characteristics of resilient people\\n\\nKey Quotes:\\n[03:26] - "It\'s so much more recovery and healing than just putting the substances down."\\n[07:28] - \\u201cWe can choose healing. We can make a decision to turn another way, take another path, and go another route.\\u201d\\n[09:29] - "Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress."\\n[13:04] - \\u201cResearch that shows storytelling, or telling our recovery and mental health stories actually promote healing in the brain.\\u201d\\n[14:27] - \\u201cOver 80% of women in addiction recovery have experienced some type of trauma, most often sexual violence.\\u201d\\n[15:09] - "We have the ability to shift our stories... in the next level of recovery, if we embrace our trauma healing and building resilience, we can really move forward into new levels of freedom."\\n[16:57] - "Some of our unhealthy patterns in recovery are really closely linked with some of the trauma that we experienced early on in our life."\\nSubscribe and Review\\nHave you subscribed to our podcast? We\\u2019d love for you to subscribe if you haven\\u2019t yet.\\xa0\\nWe\\u2019d love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select \\u201cRatings and Reviews\\u201d and \\u201cWrite a Review\\u201d then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast.\\nIf you really enjoyed this episode, we\\u2019ve created a PDF that has all of the key information for you from the episode. Just go to the episode page at www.theaddictedmind.com\\xa0to download it.\\nSupporting Resources:\\nBright Story Shine\\nSeeking Safety\\nEpisode Credits\\nIf you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Emerald City Productions. They helped me grow and produce the podcast you are listening to right now. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com Let them know we sent you.\\n\\n\\nSupport this podcast at \\u2014 https://redcircle.com/the-addicted-mind-podcast/donations\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'